True, but in many instances these days, DCHP with short lease times and
non-renewable leases are often combined with shasta gear to PREVENT people
from running reliable servers on their "non-commercial" grade ADSL.

These ISP's often don't seem to care about RFC's ;-)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chad R. Larson [mailto:clarson at eldocomp dot com]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2004 12:15 PM
> To: Mitch (WebCob); Timothy Jans; m0n0wall at lists dot m0n0 dot ch
> Subject: RE: [m0n0wall] Proxy ARP
>
>
> At 05:29 PM 2/15/2004, Mitch \(WebCob\) wrote:
> >Don't think it will keep your lease for you.
>
> An RFC compliant DHCP server is supposed to give you back the same IP
> address as you last had, even if the lease has expired, as long as it has
> not been reallocated.
>
>
>           -crl
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